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News Release from: Foster Wheeler
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2006
Fluidised-bed boiler island contract
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Foster Wheeler Energia is providing a boiler island which will generate electricity and process steam to be used in the production of nickel.
Foster Wheeler has announced that Foster Wheeler Energia, part of its Global Power Group, has been awarded a contract by Votorantim Metais Niquel (VMN) to design and supply a circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island adjacent to VMN's plant located in Acampamento Macedo, Niquelandia, near Brazilia, Brazil's capital VMN is a company of Votorantim Group, one of the largest private industrial conglomerates in Brazil
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Foster Wheeler's scope includes the design and supply of a petroleum coke-fired 150MW thermal CFB boiler, auxiliary equipment, instrumentation and a burner management and boiler protection system, boiler house steel construction, and advisory services for erection and commissioning.
The boiler island, which will generate electricity and process steam to be used in the production of nickel, is scheduled to commence commercial operation in November 2008.
"We are delighted with this award, which is our second CFB win in Brazil during the last twelve months", said James Stone, CEO Foster Wheeler Power Group Europe.
"This award confirms our client's confidence in our leading CFB technology, which is ideally suited to burning petroleum coke efficiently and with low emissions".
"The boiler will also be capable of firing up to 10% biomass".
"This is an important project for Votorantim Metais as it is our first CFB investment", said Jose Roberto Piagentini, General Manager of Engineering, Votorantim Metais.
"We decided to select the best technology available on the market with a reliable partner for project execution".
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